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Ire SPECIMEN COPIES OP rue PAPER PRES. Address LUTHER TUCKER A SON, Publishers, Nov. 29] Albany, New York. CIAL Prospectuses. OVER 50,000 COPIES. 743 Broadway, New Yoik. THE HUNTINGDON, PA„ FR Elf J WS' *intr. When the Woods turn Brown. How will it be when the roses fade Out of the garden and out of the glade! When the fresh pink bloom of the sweetbrier wild, That leans from the dell like the cheek of a child, Is changed for dry nips on a thorny bush ? Then, scarlet and carmine, the grove will flush, How will it be when the autumn flowers Wither away from their leafless bowers; When sunflower and star flower and golden rod Glimmer no more from the frosted sod, And the hillside nooks are empty and cold?— Then the forest tops will be gay with gold. How will it be when the woods turn brown, Their gold and their crimson all dropped down, And crumbled to dust ? 0 then, as we lay Our ear to Earth's lips, we shall hear her say, '•ln the dark I am seeking new gems for my crown ;" We will dream of green leaves when the woods turn brown. —Lucy Larcom, in St. Nicholag (It ctrall-Etlitr, MINNIE'S MISTAKE. ' l 'oh, Minnie, look ! Isn't that a splen did looking officer conversing with Lou Harwood ? See ! they are over by the organ." And Hattie Hastings excitedly grasped her sister's arm as she spoke. -He is indeed a fine appearing man," said Minnie, quietly. "But, hush ! dear, you will attract attention." "Fine appearing indeed ! Why, he is superb—magnificent ! Now, Minnie, I am going to be presented before the evening is over, and unless my powers of fascina tion are on the wane, I'll make a sensation. Do you just keep in the background, for he looks dignified enough to fall in love with your quiet manners, and you know that as I am the oldest, I must have the first chance. See—they are looking this way—l'm sure they are speaking of us . 'We're We're in poor hands, too, for Lou Har wood, with all her sweet, baby ways, can not succeed in retaining a lover, - and is consequently jealous of us more fortunate ones. I really believe I have met my fate." "Oh, Hattie, what a rattle-brained crea- ture you are ! Be quiet ncw; I want to hear the speaker. I promise to leave the field clear for you, only don't make your self ridiculous." And quiet, sedate Min nie who, although three years younger than her madcap sister, seemed at least five years her senior, turned her attention once more to the speaker, a talented young man, who, with Kossuth, was banished from Hungary and who had been induced by some of his friends to deliver a lecture on the subject of his native land before a lodge of Good Templars in the village of Westerly. He was an eloquent speaker, and as, in telling of his country and his dearly loved though unfortunate leador, his whole soul rose in indignation at their wrongs, the blue eyes of the young girl filled with tears of sympathy, and, perfectly unconscious of the gaze of a pair of dark, haz:l eyes, she sat drinking in every word of the dis course, only turning her blue eyes sway when, amid thunders of applause, the young orator took his seat. In the meantime, Lieutenant Dane, the young officer who had made such an im pression upon Miss Hattie Hastings, was gayly chatting with his companion, a pretty faced, apparently sweet tempered girl, who, to judge from the close attention which she paid to every word he spoke, and her utter oblivion to the presence of others, was decidedly of the opinion that her friend had formed, and was not at all averse to the honor of being the sole lady ac quaintance of the distinguished soldier. As his gaze wandered about the pretty hall, it rested upon the two sisters, and, turning to his companion he asked. "Who are those two young ladies sitting by the chaplain's desk ?" "Oh, those are the Hastings girls," re plied his companion, with a very signifi cant toss of her head. "They are fine looking girls. Are they friends of yours ?" "Acquaintances merely. I never liked them, especially the older one, so I never have encouraged their friendship. But you will be presented soon. They arc ac complished flirts, and always on the look out for fresh victims, so they will manage to bring about an introduction before the evening is over." There was an unmistakable sneer in the speaker's voice and manner, but, looking once more at the sisters, and observing the beautiful, womanly pity that lighted up the face of Minnie as the exile told of the home of his youth he replied : "I have always flattered myself that I am a goo i judge of character, but if' that blue-eyed, golden haired girl is not the embodiment of sweetness and purity I shall never again lay claim to any special excellence in that line." "Appearances are often deceitful," said the girl. "I really hope you will retain your good opinion of her." And she turned toward the lecturer, to hide from the gentleman the rage which she felt he must observe, while her heart was filled with bitterness toward the young girl, who seemed destined to charm, without an ef fort, those whom she, with all her arts, could no more than amuse for a time. While the young man endeavoring to appear interested in the discourse, was unable to prevent his eyes from wandering toward that part of the room where the two girls sat, one, entirely forgetful of his presence, and the other, noting his glances and ascribing them to an interest awakened in herself, felt her pulse quicken as she thought how those eyes could look when once the heart was touched, and she re solved that no effort should be spared to bring him to her feet. Lieutenant Dane was one of Nature's noblemen. A lawyer by profession, he bade fair to make for himself a name; but in the dark hour of his country's need he had put aside his dreams of fame, and, listening to the call of volunteers, had en listed as a private in a Massachusetts regi ment. He had risen rapidly, however, and after his first term had expired he had re enlisted, and with his regiment was now encamped in Westerly, looking up recruits and awaiting orders to the front. As soon as possible he hunted up his old college chum, Will Harwood, and expecting to remain in camp some time, decided to ac company his sister Lou to the lodge, in order that he might become acquainted with the young people of the village. Inwardly resolving to study the girl who bad interested him so deeply, to learn for himself whether she was the gentle, noble woman he had imagined her to be, DAY DECEMBER 6, 1878. or artful and wily as his companion inti mated, he too turned his attention to the speaker, and at the close of his remarks, during the half hour's intermission which followed, he offered his arm to Miss Har wood and joined the promenaders, hoping that fortune would favor him and bring him nearer the object of his thoughts. Before long he found himself bowing low before Miss Hattie Hastings, who cordially extended her hand, exclaiming, while she flashed a glance from her bright eyes upon him. "I always like to take by the hand those who are fighting for our flag. I feel an especial interest in our soldiers." He was charmed by her frank, impetu• ous manners and her handsome face, and she held him in close conver§ation, leading him on to speak of the battles in which be had been engaged, until he nearly forgot her fair-haired sister, whom he at last dis covered sitting in an arm chair on a raised platform near them, gayly chatting with the friends who surrounded her. Her fate, lighted with animation, was very beautiful, and, turning to Hattie he re marked. "I should like very much to be pre sented to your sister if you will do me that favor." "Such an act would require more courage than I possess," declared the incorrigible Hattie, "for Lou Harwood would certainly antihilate me. She is looking daggers at me now for keeping you from her so long." And laughing gleefully at that lady's dis comfiture, and at her own cleverness in keeping him from her sister, she led him away to another part of the hall. When she reached home that evening, she was loud in her praises of her new ac quaintance, while Minnie, who though gentle and lovable, felt piqued at his seem ing indifference toward making her ac quaintance, shrugged her shoulders, and said. "I eimldn't perceive anything very re markable about him. To be sure, he is passably good looking and has a fine form; but then these good looking men are, as a general thing, soft." Hattie laughingly repeated this remark to Miss Harwood, who, in spite of her declaration to the contrary, was on quite friendly terms with the sisters, and who called on them the following day. She in turn repeated it to the gentleman in ques tion, adding that Minnie had declared her intention of snubbing him, thereby pro ving to him that one girl at least was not ready to fall down and worship him. He was surprised and hurt, and decided that probably Miss Harwood was right in her estimate of the young lady, and that he would avoid making her acquaintance. Lou was delighted with her success in keeping them apart, and, although after those first, remarks neither spoke the other's nano, she was constantly inventing some slighting remarks and pouring them into the ears of each. Thus weeks passed. Minnie, in spite of her resolution to the contrary, had learned to look eagerly for the appearance of the tall soldier, and to feel a keen dis appointment if were not present at each meeting, while he could not wholly make up his mind that the mild-eyed, sweet faced girl was anything but a pure, truth ful woman. They met everywhere, yet each tried to avoid the other, and two months bad passed before the ice was broken. Among the new recruits was a young boy who had been taken suddenly ill, and his mother, a poor widow, had him re moved from the camp to his home, that he might receive her loving care. He rapidly grew worse, however, and Lieut. Dane, who had taken a great interest in the lad, saw that his days were numbered. One day about a week after he had been taken home, he walked down to the cottage a little earlier than his usual hour for call ing. As he approached the door, he heard sobs and moans, as of some one in great distress, while a sweet, low voice seemed speaking words of comfort. Fearing that the worst had happened, and that the young recruit had already joined the ranks of the angels, he made his way into the room without`knocking, and was greeted by a fresh outburst of tears from the stricken mother, who, pointing toward the bed, where the young girl was just closing the eyes of the boy, and tenderly laying his head upon the pillow, she cried piteously, "My Rob is dead ! My Rob is dead 1" "He is free from all pain, my dear Mrs. Bennet. Remember he is an angel now, and can never suffer more." And as she turned, her eyes brimming with tears of sympathy, and took the hand of the mother in hers, she discovered the presence of the gentleman. She bowed and blushed confusedly as she met his eye, but the suffering of her neighbor served to take all thoughts of other matters from her mind, and she pro ceeded to set the disordered room to rights while he endeavored to reconcile the worn an to her bereavement. With heart break ing sobs she exclaimed, "I will try be resigned, but oh Ihe was my only child. He has suffered so terribly, and I don't know what I should have done all this dreadful week but for that blessed angel there. God surely will reward her an hundred fold for her kind ness." As it was growing quite dark, Minnie said she could nut remain longer, and Lieut. Dane, rising, offered to accompany her home, saying, when he saw her hesi tate, that it was hardly safe for her to go alone, as there were so many soldiers roam ing about the streets. She could not decline his escort without rudeness, and ,hey started ont, each main taining perfect silence until half the dis• tance to her home had been accomplished. Finding it impossible to restrain himself longer, he said, "I find, Miss Hastings, that I have been greatly deceived in your character, and I cannot tell you how happy I am to find you, instead of the heartless coquette I was led to believe, an angel of love and mercy. I have been deeply interested in you from the first, but have tried, though vainly, to dislike you. You see lam frank with you. Will you not be equally so, and tell me why you have avoided we ?" Mutual confessions followed, and the perfidy of Lou Harwood was revealed. In his great joy at finding her all his fancy had pictured, he forgot that this was the first time they had ever exchanged words, and told her how she had won her way into his heart, and that he wanted her for his own precious wife ; while she, with blushing face and happy tears, ex claimed, "I think I have always loved you, but I supposed you loved Lou Harwood, and I was so very miserable." Drawing her closely to him, and im printing his first kiss upon her lips, he said, "That, my darling, was your mistake." (selett ~1 isteitang. A KILKENNY CAT FIGHT! DEMOCRATIC FUR FLYING ! PROMINENT LEADERS CROSS SWORDS! WALLACE VS. BARR! Barr vs. Wallace ! WHEN TWO RIDE A HORSE, ONE MUST RIDE BEHIND BARR HAS BEEN BEHIND LONG ENOUGH, HE THINKS ! Wallace on Barr From Waliace's Home Paper.] Mr. James P. Barr, in his Pittsburgh Post, which always has been a personal or gan, and never a faithful exponent of De mocracy, seizes upon a paragraph of ours to vent his venom upon Senator Wallace. The Republican is not the organ of any man, and the paragraph referred to, like our other editorials, was our own. We do not need to look far for the reason of Barr's attack on Senator Wallace. The Senator was unwise enough on the death of Mr. Heister, in 1872, to recommend Mr. Barr for the place of Member of the National Committee for Pennsylvania, which place he held until 1876, but he was not for Mr. D. 0. (the brother of J. P.) Barr, for State Treasurer in 1873, nor was he for J. P. for United States Senator in 1874, nor for Mr. J. P. for Governer in 1875, nor for Mr. J. P. for delegate at large to St. Louis in 1876, nor for Mr. D. 0. for State Treasurer in 1877, nor is he for Mr. D. 0. for State Treasurer in 1879, which nomination Mr. J. P. and Mr. D. 0. and Mr. J. C. Barr and their friends are now actively canvassing for by most unworthy appeals to sectarian prejudice. In the light of these facts it is easy to see why the Post turns its guns upon the Senator. The hold he has upon the Democracy must be broken or the Barrs cannot get nominations for fat offices. The Post asserts that the de feat of Senator Dill is chargeable to the fact that his nomination was regarded as a "Wallace set up!' It might with more justice be traced to the virulent, false, and treacherous attacks made upon Mr. Dill before his nomination, by the Post and kindred sheets, and to the lying and gar bled records printed and circulated by the creatures of Mr. J. P. Barr prior thereto, or to the prophetic utterances of the trav eling correspondent of the Post, Mr. J. C., in which he foretold our defeat wherever he went. These attacks before the nomi nation, were the stock in trade of our ene my after it was made, and did more to de feat Mr. Dill than all else, except the mon ey of Cameron, which was used with such fatal effect to buy up and vote against us the very men whom the Barrs are now try ingto send to the State Convention to nom inate Mr. D 0. Barr for State Treasurer. It is a part of our political history that whenever a candidate for State office is named, who is a friend of Senator Wallace, that he is at once attacked by the Post and two or three other papers within the State, and by the New York Sitn,and villification and slander are heaped upon him in order to defeat his nomination. Senator Dill was abused and villified by these people without stint. For months prior to, and at the Convention, they were shameless in their blatant falsehoods. While the Con vention was in progress, the columns of their papers, and the streets were alike fill ed with them. Public speeches were made and every effort used to influence the Con vention to listen to their slanders. On the other band Senator Dill and his friends attacked no candidate, wrote no abusive articles, distributed no garbled records, and made no public speeches to distract his party. Such has always been the pol icy of Senator Wallace and those with whom he has acted since he has come into public life. He and his friends abuse no candi date before nomination, and they always give a cordial support to the nominees. The Post and its friends coin falsehoods in advance, and stab the nominees in the dark after they are before the people, if those nominees are not their special favor ites. It is an offence in the eyes of the Barra that Senator Wallace was sent to the State Convention and used his influence to nom inate candidates and enunciate principles. Are our public men to be retired from ac tive participation in settling the very prin ciples upon which they are called upon to vote ? Is it true that because a man has the evidence of his party's trust it is to ig nore his counsel and he is to turn his back upon its council fires ? Just because his place gives him enlarged opportunities and wider sphere of action, the necessity comes for his counsel and earnest aid in the council chamber of the party. If power and patronage conferred by party place were used to influence nominations, there might be cause for criticism, but the par allel between Cameron and Wallace, that the Post seeks to draw, cannot be sustain ed. Cameron has power and patronage. He gives offices and fat places. He uses with unscrupulous hands all of the perqui sites of his place to pack conventions and dictate nominations. Wallace, on the con trary, has neither places nor patronage nor perquisites. He can give no offices to Dem ocrats. nor reward delegates with post offi ces, collectorships or rich pickings from fat Government contracts. Can the Post point to a single delegate who voted for Mr. Dill who was influenced by Federal patronage ? If it cannot, then its com plaint of a "Wallace set-up" is the sheer est bosh. It is more : it is as effort to es tablish a precedent in the counsels of the Democracy that shall result in ignoring the advice of men trusted and in high place, simply because they are so trusted. The animus of the Post is transparent. Its at tacks are the result of a personal grievance against Senator Wallace. As to the de feat of Governor Curtin, it is not necessa ry for those who know Senator Wallace and his broad views of the policy of his party and his devotion to its best interests, both in this district and in the State, in the canvass just closed, to say anything in his defence. The combined vote of the ,Republicans and Nationals, the unscrupu• lous use of money within the district by the Cameron-Quay•Mackey power, and the treachery of Democrats outside of Clear field county, who acted with the Post and its party at the Pittsburgh Convention were the causes of the victory of Yocum over Curtin. Upon this subject the end is not yet. Let the Post possess its soul in patience. The Post modestly says, "We" bagged fifteen members of the Legislature from Allegheny in 1875, and thereby elected Wallace to the Senate. Eleven members and one Senator were elected by the De mocracy in Allegheny to the Legislature in 1875. Two of these did not vote in cau cus for Senator Wallace, and it will be news we think to the Democracy of the State that Senator Wallace, who was nom inated in caucus by 106 out of 122 votes, owes that nomination to the Barra. The claim that Mr. Barr owns and controls stalwart Democrats like John 51. Irwin, John Swann, and Joseph M. Carson, and those who were their colleagues in that Legislature, we think will be slightly con tested by those gentlemen. Indeed, we know whereof we speak when we say that the incubus of the Barre on the Democ racy of Allegheny is one from which a large majority of them pray to be deliver ed. BARR ON WALLACE To Hon. Wm. A. Wallace, United States Senator : The fact comes to me from several sour ces that you are employed and are employ ing others in circulating among Democrats of the State, handbills, containing a scur rilous personal attack on the undersigned, which he is not supposed to pass unheeded. Further proof of your responsibility for the document is found in the fact that while maligning others you bestow lavish praise upon yourself; quite a characteris. tic proceeding. That you had not the courage or manliness to place your signa ture to the libel you circulate, but take refuge.behind your home organ, is quite in keeping with your reputed trickiness. SOMETHING PERSONAL. First, Senator, as to the personal mat ters you suggest. The only favor alleged that you ever conferred on me was a rec ommendation for membership of the Na tional Democratic Committee in 1872. I am obliged to say even this solitary instance is not correctly stated, as you had a man for the place then as ever since, and the honor came from the Committee. To put it mildly, you don't speak the truth. You make public proclamation of how often and persistently you have opposed me in mat ters in which you assume I was deeply , in terested ; you make a virtue of such oppo sition, but neglect to state that all the time I was receiving letters from you professing the greatest friendship. In this respect, Senator, you needlessly advertise your own double dealing and hypocrisy. It is your cheap boast, for instance, you were not fur me for United States Senator in 1874, when you knew I was not a candidate, but an avowed and earnest supporter, through the press and at Harrisburg, of your own election. You assert you were not for me for Governor at Erie in 1875 ; that I dis covered in Convention, although you pro fessed to be my friend privately in that matter, just as you had made like hypo critical professions to Cul. Noyes ; and, Sen ator, you will remember, how your treach ery at Erie was exposed and denounced to your face in Col. Noyes' room by a friend of the present State Treasurer, and the pains it cost you to keep the incident from the public. The stalwart woodsman, who was angered by the EXPOSURE OF YOUR DOUBLE-DEALING, had no prior experience of your schemes to ingraft Cameron methods on the noble old Democratic stock. It is a good plan, Senator, in making up for a double-faced part, with treachery to some one as a nec essary outcome, to keep in mind time, place, and circumstance, else the inevitable explo sion, as at Erie, may involve humiliation and ignominy. You further declare, Sena tor—as if it was a passport to publib favor, when, in reality, it is of no consequence— that you were opposed to me for delegate to the St. LottiA Convention in 1876 ; yet I have your letters urging me to become a candidate, and that you was not and would not be. Afterward you reconsidered and begged imploringly to be sent to St. Louis, as you would certainly be made President of the Convention ; a position for which you received Blur votes, mainly Viet Pres• idents of the Texas Pacific Road. Not satisfied, however, with proclaiming your hostility in the past, and thus giving the lie to your repeated professions, you proclaim your purpose, somewhat arrogant ly in the future as to Mr. D. 0. Barr, for whom your circular states I am "already canvassing" for a nomination next year, "by the most unworthy appeal to sectarian prejudices." I have not spoken a word Jr written a line 'on the subject, nor have I heard that gentleman say he was even a candidate. WALLACE CHARGED WITH FALSEHOOD. This statement, therefore, which you are circulating- in cold blooded malice, is a wilful and deliberate falsehood on your part, and all that it implies. To wash this out, you have but to point to a single instance where I did either. Finally, sir, to bring personal matters to a elose, I have never asked or received a favor at your hands. Voluntary profes sions of friendship and service I have had, but their value may be properly gauged by your public statement they were hypo critical. Nor is it becoming in you, whose life has been oue of office-holding, coupled with the fact you are already discounting the future fur other places of trust and emo:ument, to sneer at the aspirations of others, I find you self nominated for the Vice Presidency in the newspaper you make the vehicle of your shameless con fessions and malicious assaults; and it is a fact that you are even now at work to se cure a delegation to the next Democratic National Convention, on which you can trade for place or patronage. In this re spect your tactics are so nearly identical with those of your colleague in the Senate, Mr. Don Cameron, that it is needless to explain you both have learned your lessons from the same copy-book, held by your Senatorial sponsor, the venerable and il lustrious Simon Cameron. WALLACE'S LITTLE GAME EXPOSED. Passing from these trivial questions of detail, I come to the real point of con troversy. Tbat is, your purpose and plans to make the Democratic party of Pennsyl vania the obedient machine of one-man power, and that man yourself; or, to put it as best understood in the shameful and humiliating experience of the State, to Cameronize the party. The closeness of your relations with the Camerona, your hold on the corporation and subsidy power of the State, as well as your industry and cleverness in intrigue, undoubtedly give you great advantages in corrupting the Democratic organization and reducing it to the immoral level of the Republican party, which sees its highest honors de scend in hereditary succession, and its policy and candidates determined with military precision by a corrupt and cor rupting cabal. But, Senator, I do not believe you will succed in your purpose to so humiliate the grand old Democratic party. The basis of the elder Cameron's power was a straightforward loyalty to friends and co-laborers. You make treachery a boast and deceit a virtue. Your friends of this year repose in the consciousness you will sell them out next. Beside that, the masses of the party distrusi, your plans. In the recent canvass, the west would not tolerate your presence on the stump, and you wisely remained at the east. The most difficult duty of the Democratic speakers and press throughout the Com monwealth, was to meet the charge that THE LIBRARY HALL CONVENTION was ruled by you on the Cameron princi ple, and its candidates selected on the ground of personal fealty to your supposed interests. As a matter of fact it was un true, but there was enough color for the charge to work grievous injury to the cause. You cultivated the idea that it was "my ticket" and "my Convention," for selfish purposes outside the State, the scope of which is now seen in your self made nomination fur the Vice-Presidency by your home organ. The candidates well know that this was the dead weight under which they staggered during the canvass ; it met them at every turn, and neutralised their earnest warfare on the personal rule of the Cameron ring. "As well Cameron as Wallace," was the regretful logic of thousands who drifted from their old place in the Democratic party to the Nationals, or kept away from the polls. Objections to your scarcely concealed purpose to Cameronize the Democratic party, by asserting a one-man puwer over its councils and nominations, you assume to mean opposition to your presence in the Conventions of the party as a delegate from your county. Nothing of the kind. Your presence and experience would be welcome there, were they divorced from your plans to assert absolute control, even by the use of the most disreputable agencies known to the politics of the State. The objection that is in the minds of the peo ple is your perverting the Democratic or ganization to a mere personal machine, to crush out independence of thought or ac tion, and reduce the party to the degraded level of Pennsylvania Republicanism. No earnest, thoughtful Democrat envies that party its success considering the price at which it has been purchased. THE CLEARFIELD MAN BOUND TO FAIL. Your attempt to create like conditions in the Democratic party will fail. All the patronage the Camerons have wielded or now control, would not crown the attempt with success any more than your small in trigues and petty bargainings. The Demo cracy have both seen and felt, in the cor rupt eourse of the dominant party in this State for the past twenty years, the evils and political degradation that result from the one man power in State politics. They do not believe your dictatorship would be more advantageous to the public interests, more honest, purer, or freer from the most vicious scandals, than the rule of your close friends the Camerons has been. It is my belief whenever this is squarely presented, the Democracy will prefer defeat with honor to success that binds them in dia. honorable vassalage. This discussion is not of my seeking, but has been forced upon me, and the. facts are proper to my political and personal vindication as a man and a Democrat against your open and covert attacks.— Not that they arc to he feared, save as slander and falsehood are detestable, for recent political results have confirmed the fact that your friendships are more fatal than your enmities. JAMES P. BARR. A Convict's Story. "Twelve years for stealing a meal to keep his family from starving !" This statement is made by an official of the Eastern Pennsylvania penitentiary as a veritable fact : At present there is a man confined in the penitentiary who is serving out a sentence for the larceny of food which was to feed his starving wife and children. The man's story is this, and it is vouched for by a fellow prisoner, who was concerned in the robberies, and to whom the court gave two years. I was a coal miner, residing in Scranton, and during the suspension of work last winter, like many others, I was on the verge of starvation. I looked over my larder and found Indian meal and meat enough to last me a week. After that was gone, I knew not where the next was to come from. There was my wife and three children to be looked after, with no prospect of work, because the big men of the coal companies were fighting among themselves, and the poor miners were starving. In the same house with me was a Dutchman, also a miner. Seeing that thiegs were becoming desperate, one day I proposed to the other fellow that we should go into the country and get enough meal to keep us for a month. We took another fellow with us (there he is, said the man, pointing to the two-year fellow.) We went into six barns and stole as much Indian meal as we could carry. Then the Dutchman went into a kitchen and stole two cans of fruit. When we were nearly back to town, this man here found a spring house open and a piece of meat followed him out of there. We were arrested afterivards and tried. The Dutchman turned State's evidence, and the Judge gave ms twelve years (two years for each barn I went into) while my corn panion got two years for that piece of meat. I'll tell you what, its rough to look a man up that long fur so trifling a crime, when he does it to keep the wolf from the door, Kerosene as a Hair Tonic. The subjoined recipe is ao instantaneous and thorough remedy for as itching scalp. It is the beat hair invigorator and shampoo in existence, and leaves the hair in the most beautiful condition, bringing out all its natural tints, and leaves the scalp as white and pure as a baby's. I don't care how thick the dandruff, it will clean it in a moment, and if there is a root of hair left it will start a new crop. Take two or three tablespoonfuls of kerosene and rub with a little piece of rag lightly into the scalp just enough to moisten the skin ; then wash the head in hot water, in which a little sal soda or ammonia water has been put; use no soap; dry thoroughly, and (if a lady) let the hair hang free till perfectly dry. Do this about once in two weeks and you will have no trouble of any kind with the outside of your head. I used it for an itching scalp, and was surprised to find a thick undergrowth of new hair after two or three applications." N 0.48.
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